3D games are nothing new today, with your Call of Duty's and Minecraft's. But when 3D video games first hit store they were the next big thing next to Apollo 11. Despite the graphics not being the best when games like Battlezone and 3D monster maze came around they were a big hit, especial when the now classic Doom and Wolfinstien 3D came around. However these 4 examples actually WEREN'T three-dimensional! they faked it and the easiest way to tell is to simple look up and down, If you can't then you aren't playing a 3D game. The way Wolfinstien 3D faked its 3D is that the computer itself sees it as 2D but displays what your looking at in a 3D fashion, and the game couldn't care less about what you see. With that in mind in Doom does have stairs and slopes so how isn't it 3D? Well first of all you can't look up and down and straight ahead you can still shoot a demon from above where you're looking. How it faked it is that it divided room to small enough sections for the system to manage the only loaded sections you were looking at but not the ones that were obstructed.
Battlezone gameplay
True 3D games
Its hard to find the first REAL 3D game but the closest is probably Alpha Waves but as I said its not 100% accurate. This is around the time were you got your Nintendo64 consoles which COULD run a real 3D game with left, right, forward, back and up and down but because of technical limitations characters were made of polygons but as technology advances and time we got better 3D graphics and moved away from that. Although good looking games does NOT mean good game play (I'm looking at you Sonic '06) and some games had trouble with the transition from 2D to 3D (*cough cough sonic '06 cough*)
Alpha waves game cover
Q.1 what was closest to being the first 3D game?
1. 3D monster maze
2. Wolfistien 3D
3. DOOM 4. Alpha Waves
Q.2 Did everyone manage the transition form 2D to 3D? 1. some survived the transition but other didn't
2. everyone survived the transition
3. All of the below
4. no one survived the transition
3D games are nothing new today, with your Call of Duty's and Minecraft's. But when 3D video games first hit store they were the next big thing next to Apollo 11. Despite the graphics not being the best when games like Battlezone and 3D monster maze came around they were a big hit, especial when the now classic Doom and Wolfinstien 3D came around. However these 4 examples actually WEREN'T three-dimensional! they faked it and the easiest way to tell is to simple look up and down, If you can't then you aren't playing a 3D game. The way Wolfinstien 3D faked its 3D is that the computer itself sees it as 2D but displays what your looking at in a 3D fashion, and the game couldn't care less about what you see. With that in mind in Doom does have stairs and slopes so how isn't it 3D? Well first of all you can't look up and down and straight ahead you can still shoot a demon from above where you're looking. How it faked it is that it divided room to small enough sections for the system to manage the only loaded sections you were looking at but not the ones that were obstructed.
True 3D games
Its hard to find the first REAL 3D game but the closest is probably Alpha Waves but as I said its not 100% accurate. This is around the time were you got your Nintendo 64 consoles which COULD run a real 3D game with left, right, forward, back and up and down but because of technical limitations characters were made of polygons but as technology advances and time we got better 3D graphics and moved away from that. Although good looking games does NOT mean good game play (I'm looking at you Sonic '06) and some games had trouble with the transition from 2D to 3D (*cough cough sonic '06 cough*)
Q.1 what was closest to being the first 3D game?
1. 3D monster maze
2. Wolfistien 3D
3. DOOM
4. Alpha Waves
Q.2 Did everyone manage the transition form 2D to 3D?
1. some survived the transition but other didn't
2. everyone survived the transition
3. All of the below
4. no one survived the transition